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Looking for books to read to kids or get kids exicited about reading?

This reading list is provided by the American Library Association for you and your young reader*. If you choose to use this list, draw your child's attention to the books on the list, starting with those for the appropriate grade level. Go to the library and find one or more of the books listed here. Let your child look at the front and back covers of the book(s) and thumb through the book(s). Ask whether the book(s) interest your child. If so, check out the book(s). If not, find another book on this list and repeat the process until your child is happy.

SUGGESTED READING LISTS

Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and Letter Sounds

Birth to Preschool

Bang, Molly. Ten, Nine, Eight.
Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon.
Burton, Virginia. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.
Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Henkes, Kevin. Julius the Baby of the World.
Keats, Ezra Jack. The Snowy Day.
Numeroff, Laura and Felicia Bond. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Opie, Iona/Wells, Rosemary. My Very First Mother Goose.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Prelutsky, Jack. Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young.
Williams, Vera. "More, More, More," Said the Baby.

Preschool through Grade 2

Bruchak, Joseph. A Boy Called Slow.
Cameron, Ann. Stories Julian Tells.
Cole, Joanna and Bruce Degen. Magic School Bus series.
Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius.
Dooley, Norah. Everybody Cooks Rice.
Dorros, Arthur. Abuela.
Kuklin, Susan. How My Family Lives in America.
Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad series.
McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings.
McKissack, Patricia. Mirandy and Brother Wind.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.
Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Grades 3 and 4

Ada, Alma Flor. My Name Is Maria Isabel.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the Pest.
Fritz, Jean. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
Hurwitz, Johanna. Much Ado about Aldo.
Mathis, Sharon Bell. The Hundred Penny Box.
Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us.
Myers, Walter Dean. Mop, Moondance, and the Nagasaki Knights.
Uchida, Yoshiko. Jar of Dreams.
White, E. B. Charlotte's Web.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Little House series.

Grades 5 and 6

Ancona, George. Powwow.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963.
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife's Apprentice.
Frank, Anne. The Dairy of a Young Girl.
Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography.
Hamanada, Sheila. The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism and Renewal.
Hamilton, Virginia. Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush.
Lomas Garza, Carmen. Family Pictures = Cuadros de Familia.
Soto, Gary. Baseball in April and Other Stories.
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Maizon at Blue Hill.
Zindel, Paul. The Pigman.

 

Additional Reading Resources


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Access online testing and assessment tools from Renaissance Learning.

Accelerated Reader
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Accelerated Reading Book Finder ar

What Is The Accelerated Reader? You can search for book titles based on authors, topics, or titles of books. Just type what you want to search for in the blank field above and click Go. You will then be able to sort your search results, select book titles to add to your AR BookBag, print a list of your search results, or start a new search.

The Farmington Public Library works with local elementary and junior high schools using the Accelerated Reader and master lists, arranged by participating schools, are in a notebook at the main library.

List of Schools AR lists at the Farmington Public Library. School librarians can provide us with a link to access up-to-date AR lists to make available at the library for our patrons.

List of Schools using AR online, Renaissance Online or Lexile

  • Aztec H.S.
  • Blanco Elem.
  • Chinli Dist. (Mis. Sch.)
  • Koogler Mid. Sch.
  • Lydia Rippley Elem.
  • Newcomb Mid. Sch.
  • Tse Bit Ai Mid. Sch.